Aaron - I was there when the davis bike collective first made those bylaws!  It took like a year and a lawyer. 

The most exciting thing about those bylaws at the time was that they were designed to meet the hierarchical legal requirements while also keeping power within a strong consensus model.  How we did that is that the President/Secretary/Treasurer were given no more responsibilities in their official capacity than instructed by official group decisions at meetings.  (In reality, we still live in a world where people oo and ah at the title of president/treasurer/secretary, but everyone tried to supress it.)

An important parallel process was learning about consensus as a group.  We got Kevin Wolf the founder of N Street co-housing to come give everyone a talk on how to do consensus.  We paid him (I forget the name of his consulting biz), and we bribed all current members to attend with full-size burritos from the burrito shop a block away on L Street, and like 95% of everyone came and we all learned a lot.

  Let me know if you have any questions.

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 12:20 PM Aaron Shaw <atshaw@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

Hey Bike Collective fam,

I’m trying to find some examples of bylaws/constitutions from other community bike projects. Can you share your bylaws with us? Our collective is interested in how other bike collectives are structured and guided through their foundational documents.

Here are the Bylaws from the Davis Bike Collective: 

https://davisbikecollective.org/bylaws/

Thanks!

Aaron 

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